The man with a knife on a pam page at a starbucks in the uk. Late today, the explosion near u. S. Special forces in syria. Turkey saying the strike was in response to terrorists firing mortars near those u. S. Special forces, saying turkey was not targeting u. S. Troops. We have the latest. Here at home, the School District taking action after one of its middle School Teachers is recorded going on a racist rant. After a fender bender in the School Parking lot. The abduction from the playground. Tonight the fbi hunt under way now for a remarkable moment, a 3yearold girl found alone in a church. And longtime fox news fixture shep smith reveals hes leaving the network. What he said today on his last day. Good evening. Gat you aery busy friday night. Binht emergency evacuations under way right now. 100,000 people on the move. The wildfires exploding. At least eight burning across california, two near los angeles. Theyve turned deadly tonight. The saddle ridge fire in the San Fernando Valley bursting across 7,500 acres. Fire officials calling it a major emergency. Flames destroying about 800 acres as hour. F hos burned to t ground. Many fleeing through tunnels of fire. The escape routes filled with blinding smoke and flames. And strong winds up to 6miles abcs chief National Correspondent matt gutman is on the scene. T ighthe. Reporter tonight, los ia whirlwind of fire. The saddle ridge fire explodg overnight. More than 1,000 firefighters in multiple departments in an allout battle against apocalyptic flames. Fueled by those howling santa ana winds. So powerful up here. Massive firestorm. Look at the inferno down there. Weve watched hundreds of acres burn. About 100,000 people ordered to evacuate. Many driving through tunnels of fire. I cant even see. Lets ge reporter fire crews scrambling to save homes. Spread thin. Theyre standing guard at this basketball court. The last line of defense. Firefighters using saws to hack into gated properties. Is that your house . Hail mary, full of grace. Reporter this woman, suitcase packed, on her knees praying firefhtigers c save her home. Those stayed behind using anything, even garden hoses to fight the fire. Authorities saying one man died as a result of this fire, suffering cardiac arrest. By sunrise, the fire scorching more than seven square miles. Hocks and air tankers in a fullout assault. Thats 11,600 gallons of retardant. When the fire line hits that, it just stops. Reporter residents comforting one another. Some losing everything. East of san bernardino, the sandalwood fire incinerating dozens of structures in hours. Sounds like a machine gun going off. Those pops . Thats ammunition insi house popping off. Dehe t that fire apparently caused by burning trash from this garbage truck. The trash load was dumped off to the side of the road. Ignited the vegetation. Reporter at least one person there did not survive. Lets get to mt gutman. Hes we know the winds have been driving the fires all day long, gusting more than 60 Miles Per Hour at some points. And there are still red flag wa really been the story. Red flag warnings expected to persist through the night and tomorrow night. With gusts of 30 feel it. Those fires going to be kept alive. It was embers from across the valley you just saw that ignited this house, incinerating it in minutes. All that is left is this chimney. The owners said they only got out with their passports and their lives. Thinking about all those families tonit. Gh matt, thank you. As redflag warnings are being extended in california throughout tomorrow night now. And were also following the blizzard warning, and were tracking a noreaster on the east coast. Rob marciano tracking it all for us. Hey, rob. Reporter hi, david. The cold front of the blizzard is slicing through louisiana riw. Not thunderstorms, in part creating the santa anna winds, creating another rough night nor firefighters. Extreme fire danger from ventura to san diego. And there will be pockets of really bad stuff. Blizzard warnings up. Freeze warnings tomorrow chicago, back to oklahoma city. And theres the noreaster. Now a Tropical Storm melissa will continue toast sfla new en. More lightning here. Got to get going, david. Rob marciano, get back inside. Rob, thank you. We are going turn now to ths she had been told there was no wrongdoing on her part, but the president wanted her out. And tonight, 24 hours after two associate of Rebecca Jarvis were arrested, is giuliani a part of this investigation . What we have now learned. And heres abcs mary bruce. Reporter up until the very moment a defiant Marie Yovanovitch walked up to the capitol it wasnt clear if she was coming at all. The state department told her not to appear. But facing a subpoena, the former ambassador to ukraine showed up anyway. Behind closed doors yovanovitch told lawmakers she was forced out under pressure from President Trump. According to her Opening Statement obtained by the New York Times she was told to come back to washington on the next plane in april. Saying it was explained to her that the president had lost confidence in me, and that there had been a Concerted Campaign against mer me, even though i was assured i had done nothing wrong. I heard very, very bad things about her for a long period of time. Not good. Reporter in the july phone call with the ukrainian president that sparked the impeachment inquiry, trump called her bad news. Later saying she was going to go through some things. Today, yovanovitch who served in six administrations called idea that she was disloyal to President Trump fictitious. Incredulous that she was removed from her post based on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives and placed blame squarely president s attorney Rebecca Jarvis, who claimed yovanovitch was blocki ing i trumps politicalponent i. It stems around the ambassador and embassy being used for political purposes. Reporter the former ambassador also points a finger at joo giulianis two business trying to leave the country. Here they are laughing with giuliani at the trump hotel. See you in ukraine soon. Reporter she says these businessmen may have believed their personal financial ambitions were stymied by our anticorruption policy in ukraine. Today abc news learned federal prosecutors are investigating the business relationship between giuliani and those two men. Lets get to mary bruce, shes live on the hill tonight. The former ambassador, while testifying, describing the state department as attacked and hollowed from within. And we know tonight, House Democrats are holding a call at the end of a very busy week reporter david, democratic h leaders feel they are building a strong case against the president especially now that theyre able to question witnesses like yovanovitch. Especially after the ambassador warned theyre selling baseless conspiracy theorienyone as who will listen. She said, quote, sadly, someone was listening and that our nation was worse off because of it. Mary, thank you. Late word in the white house tonight President Trump now saying he has reach t prahadese. Tonight, what the chinese are now saying. And the president announcing this deal before leaving for a rally in louisiana. 24 hours after launching one of his most vicious attacks yet on joe biden. What he said overnight. Heres abcs chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. Reporter sitting in the oval office with a high level chinese negotiating team, president trum announced awa its a great deal for china. Its a great deal for us. Reporter its not a done deal. Its not in writing yet. The president called it phase one. The chinese vice premier said its progress towards a positive direction, but the new tariffs planned to come next week are now on hold. And the markets sure liked it. The dow closing up more than 300 points. There werent many details, but the president said china had agreed to take steps to protect intellectual property and had promised to buy more than 40 billion in agricultural products. Theres a question as to whether or not our farmers can produce that much, and i think they can. But they literally i said it jokingly. I think they mean it. Theyre going to have to buy more land. Reporter when the president announced the meeting last week, suggested he may ask the chinese to investigate joe biden last week. China should start an investigation into joe biden. Because what happened in china is just about as bad as what happened with with ukraine. Reporter can you assure the American People that you did not bring up joe biden in these negotiations . With the chinese . I have not brought up joe biden. China can do whatever they want with respect to the bidens. Reporter china ra trump railed biden last night, calling him a loser. And your father was never considered smart or a good senator. He was only a good Vice President because he understood how to kiss Barack Obamas ass. Jon karl with us live at the white house. President trump with reporters a short time ago, attacking the impeachment inquiry. And theres news tonight about the whistleblower, whose complaint launched this inquiry. And i know the democrats want to speak with them. They have some time. What is the Whistleblowers Team now saying . Reporter were told lawyers for the whistleblower have informed the congressional committees their client wants to answer request as in writing and not in person. They have cited concerns for the whistleblowers safety. David . Thank you, jon. Late today, the explosion near u. S. Special forces in syria. Turkey sayitas in response to terrorists firing mortars near the u. S. Special forces, saying turkey was not targeting u. Roag ts. N tos. Opnight. Reporter tonight a narrow miss for a u. S. Special forces post in syria as a turkish shell lands close by. The troops uninjured. Bu citt jesom usthhoe pentagon promised turke knows where all the american bases are. The Turkish Military is fully aware down to explicit grid coordinate detail of the locations of u. S. Forces. Ep rorr also landing near one of the prisons holding isis militants, raising fears of a breakout. And further proof of the ongoing threat from isis when a massive car bomb exploded in a Kurdish Border town. Thereatin sanctions, calling on turkey to halt the military operation. But tell that to the 100,000 people now on the move. Homeless, hungry, and scared. One voicing his anger at america. Trump said were allies. No, were not allies, if theyre allowing turkey to bombard us, he said. Turkey is now saying it was fired on from near the u. S. Base, and it responded. But at no point did it target u. S. Forces. But this underlines the grave dangers faced by American Forces and civilians across Northern Syria right now. David . Ian pannell with us tonight. Ian, thank you. Even as u. S. Troops have been pulled back from the border of Northern Syria, President Trump is sending an additional 2,800 americans to saudi arabia. The pentagon deploying aircraft to bolster saudi defenses. Now to the attack in manchester, england, tonight. A man stabbing three people, injuring two more at a mall during a busy lunch hour. Officers rushing to the scene. The Shopping Center on lockdown. Store owners closing their doors. Everyone sheltering in place. The police arresting the suspect on suspicion of terrorism. Tonight. Back here at home, and the author of the new book catch and kill, ronan farrow, right here tonight. In the book, the new allegation clvolving matt lauer. Oai on farrow to stop reporting on harvey weinstein. Farrow says spies were hired to follow him during all this. Heres linsey davis. Reporter in his new book, ronan farrow takes aim at nbc. Alleging the company was aware of claims of misconduct by matt lauer years before the bombshell allegation that lauer raped a former staffer,ion a lauer staunchly denies. Lauer was then fired in 2017, 24 hours after the accuser went to h. R. At the time, nbc said it was the was the first complaint ab lou matt in over 20 years. Youre saying thats a lie . The evidence in this book, the documentation and paper trail of settlements reveals there were multiple arrangements to keep women quiet, who had ma years one that got him fired. Bes rehi t reporter farrow claims nbc halted his investigation into weinstein because of intimidation by harvey weinstein. Nbc saying it lacked because the story lacked accusers willing to go on the record and have their names used. In his book, farrow says it too claiming weinstein hired private investigators who followed him and other reporters and initiated smear campaigns against weinsteins accusers. When you start to suspect youre being followed, you start to see the same people behind you on the street, youre looking over your shoulder me at seeing a car parked ou atslle hours, and youre ultimately moving out of your home to try to stay safe,s th that is an upsetting and alarming situation. Reporter farrow says one of the same spies who was allegedly paid to hack his phone and follow him ultimately ended up developing a conscience about it and he says they came forward and told him what allegedly happened. Moh ucon mre that is correct. All right, see you then. In other news, President Trump suffering a gal setback over his tax returns. Le the d. C. Court of a peels upholding a subpoena f houserothe oversight committee, demanding he turn over eight years of financial records. President trump will likely appeal. This could go to the supreme court. Still ahead on world news tonight, the teachers racist rant on video. The confrontation with a black father after a fenderbender in the middle School Parking lot. The School District taking action more on that in a moment. Longtime fox news fixture shep smith revealing hes leaving the network. Whnthe e epted tonight. Residents told to get out. We do have a lot more news ahead on a friday night. Ill be right back. Ave a lot more news ahead on a friday night. Ill be right back. Fr access to every platform. Mhm, yeah, that too. I dont want any trade minimums. Yeah, i totally agree, they dont have any of those. I want to know what im paying upfront. Yes, absolutely. Do you just say yes to everything . 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Reporter tonight, a Pennsylvania Middle School teacher has been suspended after her racist rant aimed at a africanamerican parent dropping off his child in the schools parking lot. Youre probably on welfare, too. Not even a little bit. Six figures a year, maam. Just because im young and im black is the reason you would say that. Thats right, its because youre black. Reporter the parent saying it all stemmed from a minor fenderbender. In the apartment of drexel hill middle school. In the video you see the teacher come out from around the back of a truck and yell derogatory statements and a racial slur toward the parent. [ bleep ] tonight, the superintendent speaking out. This is not the appropriate way to interact or communicate with anybody in the public. Reporter as for the parent involved, he commends the district for how theyre handling everything, adding that one teacher does not represent the entire school. Thank you. When we come back, the gas leak. There are injuries. 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